Glass-finishing machine



(No Model.)

' a. F. NEALE.

GLASS FINISHING MACHINE.

No. 419,468. Patented Jan. 14,1890.

5o composed of felt, emery, or other suitable UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

GEORGE NEAL E, OF CRYSTAL CITY, MISSOURI.

GLASS-FINISHING MACHINE.

SPECIFIOATION'for-ming part of Letters Patent No. 419,468, dated January 14, 1890.

Application filed September 24, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. NEALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crystal City, in the county of Jefierson, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Glass-Finishing Tools, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved tool for finishing plate-glass, which when it leaves the large machines is more or less imperfect, rendering it sometimes necessary to repass the plates through the large machines for effecting a perfect polishing, and thereby causing a great waste of time.

My invention has for its object to obviate this difficulty by effecting a rapid and easy polishing or finishing of the plates without repassing them through the large machines.

The invention consists in a polishing ring or Wheel andpulley secured to a shaft on which are loose handles, the whole constituting a tool to which power may be applied by an elastic belt, the loose handles serving as bearings for the rotating shaft, as well as means for guiding the, tool, the elasticity of the driving-belt permitting the tool to be used at any point on the surface of the glass where any other detached tool would be used.

On the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved glass-polishing tool in elevation, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section thereof on line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference denote like parts in both figures.

In carrying out myinvention I use a shaft or spindle having preferably a square central portion a and two circular end portions a. On the square part a are mounted two disks 1), of equal diameter,having square central holes fitting the square part a of the spindle, and formed entirely around their peripheries with right and left handed recesses 0, respectively, which are preferably of a semi-dovetail shape, so that when the disks 1) are brought together side by side at their peripheries the recesses 0 will join and hold between them the correspondingly-shaped portion of a circular ring or band cl, which is Serial No. 324,902. (No model.)

glass-polishing material. 011 the square portion a of the spindle is also mounted a pulley e, which is grooved on its circumference for receiving a preferably round elastic rubber,

belt f, driven from any suitable overhead motor. The pulley c, which is located between a fixed collar g on the spindle and the adjacent disk I), is formed with a square central hole fitting the square part a of the spindle. The disks 1), with the intervening polishing ring (I, as well as the pulley e, are held firmly together on the square part a of the spindle against the fixed collar g by a nut h or otherwise, as preferred. Around the circular end portions a of the spindle are loosely fitted handles '5, of any suitable material, which are held in place endwise by nuts and washers or other device.

In operation, the tool being held by the loose handles 1' and rotary motion imparted by the elastic belt f to pulley e, and thereby to the polishing-ring d, the operator is enabled, through the extensibility of the drivingbelt, to apply the polishing-wheel with any desired force at any angle and to guide the tool so as to bring the periphery of the polishing-ring d to bear upon any part of the glass plate which it is desired to polish or finish in like manner to the use of any other detached polishing-tool. By my invention slight imperfections areremoved from the glass more thoroughly and in much less time than is done by what is known as hand-blocking.

I am aware that rotating polishing-tools provided with handles for guiding the same have heretofore been mounted on pivoted and journaled frames, and do not herein claim such machines, as the same are necessarily limited in their application or range by the non-extensibility of the frames in which they are mounted and the non-elasticity of the driving-belts.

I claim as my invention- 1. A polishing-tool for finishing polished surfaces, said tool composed of a shaft'having a polishing-wheel and pulley attached thereto, and handles loosely journaled on the shaft to the outside of said polishing-wheel and pulley, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a polishing-tool, the eolnbin ation, with In testimony whereof Ihave afiixed my siga polygonal shaft having journal ends, of

nature, in presence of two witnesses, this 17th two elmnping-disks having dovetailed reday of September, 1.889. eesses at their peripheries and polygonal 5 shaft-holes, a pulley secured to the shaft, and WVitnesses:

handles loosely jonrna-led on the shaft, sub- 1: stantially as and for the purposes described.

GEO. F. NEALE.

LOUIS PHILLIPPI, FRED BUTLER. 

